[Salgak]

The question is backwards. Because the South WOULD be better off without the North. . . .

[WilliamRobert]

Yes you are right the South would be better off without the North. Crap if Texas left the North/country would lose one fifth of its economy. Take Louisiana with and the the North would be in major energy crunch. By all rights Alaska and the entire northwestern states would come to sans Washington and Oregon.